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HSBC Champions golf tournament
Nov 14, 2014 (WiC 260)

In the most dramatic conclusion yet to the HSBC Champions golf tournament, Bubba Watson (second left in the photo below) claimed victory last Sunday at the Shanghai event. Having lost his lead with a double-bogey on the 17th, Watson made a ...

Beijing has new sports plan
Nov 7, 2014 (WiC 259)

The South Korean reality show 2 Days & 1 Night began the second season of its Chinese adaptation this week. The programme tries to highlight places of interest by taking celebrities on trips to the wilderness. But rather than ...

Li Na retires from tennis
Sep 26, 2014 (WiC 254)

The Women’s Tennis Association sees the Chinese market as crucial. How to judge this? Look no further than the number of WTA events hosted there. A decade ago it was just two, but this year 10 events were arranged in China. The growing ...

Where is China’s Rocky Balboa?
Sep 5, 2014 (WiC 251)

Last week Shanghai held a rare professional boxing event. The show, dubbed the “Fists of Power”, incorporated seven bouts. Two title fights were fought by Chinese boxers but interest in the event was muted. The venue wasn’t full and most of ...

New book charts China’s golfing odyssey
Jul 11, 2014 (WiC 245)

Arnold Palmer realised how little the locals knew about golf when he agreed to design the first course in China for two generations. After years of golfing purdah, the sport was gibberish to the Chinese, something that the American golfing ...

Can Chinese bet on World Cup?
Jul 4, 2014 (WiC 244)

In the decades after Mao Zedong took power in 1949, gambling was considered an immoral practice. It was deemed symptomatic of a decadent era when landlords and eunuchs ran China. That taboo was broken in 1984 when the Chinese Athletics ...

Its national team ain’t there, but Chinese remain obsessed with World Cup
Jun 27, 2014 (WiC 243)

Just like at the last football World Cup in South Africa, China’s impact this time round in Brazil is being felt more in plastic than in playing soccer. In fact, China has only qualified for the finals of the tournament once – in 2002, ...

Alibaba gets into football as buying spree continues
Jun 13, 2014 (WiC 241)

China’s billionaires generally dislike publicity although Alibaba’s Jack Ma welcomes it more than most. He was in the headlines again last week, this time for buying the ultimate billionaire’s plaything – a football club. That led to ...

China announces new football coach and big sponsorships
Mar 7, 2014 (WiC 228)

Profundity is not a quality often associated with football managers, especially in a week in which Newcastle boss Alan Pardew head-butted an opposition player. However, in a recent interview with Simon Kuper in the Financial Times, Real ...

China’s Olympians underperform in Russia
Feb 21, 2014 (WiC 226)

If diplomatic schmoozing were an Olympic sport, Xi Jinping might be up for a gold medal. Two days before the 2014 Winter Olympics were about to begin in Sochi, the Chinese president broke with normal protocol by flying to Russia in apparent ...

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HSBC Champions golf tournament Nov 14, 2014 (WiC 260) In the most dramatic conclusion yet to the HSBC Champions golf tournament, Bubba Watson (second left in the photo below) claimed victory last Sunday at the Shanghai event. Having lost his lead with a double-bogey on the 17th, Watson made a ...

Beijing has new sports plan Nov 7, 2014 (WiC 259) The South Korean reality show 2 Days & 1 Night began the second season of its Chinese adaptation this week. The programme tries to highlight places of interest by taking celebrities on trips to the wilderness. But rather than ...

Li Na retires from tennis Sep 26, 2014 (WiC 254) The Women’s Tennis Association sees the Chinese market as crucial. How to judge this? Look no further than the number of WTA events hosted there. A decade ago it was just two, but this year 10 events were arranged in China. The growing ...

Can Chinese bet on World Cup? Jul 4, 2014 (WiC 244) In the decades after Mao Zedong took power in 1949, gambling was considered an immoral practice. It was deemed symptomatic of a decadent era when landlords and eunuchs ran China. That taboo was broken in 1984 when the Chinese Athletics ...

HSBC Champions golf tournament
Nov 14, 2014 (WiC 260)

In the most dramatic conclusion yet to the HSBC Champions golf tournament, Bubba Watson (second left in the photo below) claimed victory last Sunday at the Shanghai event. Having lost his lead with a double-bogey on the 17th, Watson made a ...

Beijing has new sports plan
Nov 7, 2014 (WiC 259)

The South Korean reality show 2 Days & 1 Night began the second season of its Chinese adaptation this week. The programme tries to highlight places of interest by taking celebrities on trips to the wilderness. But rather than ...

Li Na retires from tennis
Sep 26, 2014 (WiC 254)

The Women’s Tennis Association sees the Chinese market as crucial. How to judge this? Look no further than the number of WTA events hosted there. A decade ago it was just two, but this year 10 events were arranged in China. The growing ...

Can Chinese bet on World Cup?
Jul 4, 2014 (WiC 244)

In the decades after Mao Zedong took power in 1949, gambling was considered an immoral practice. It was deemed symptomatic of a decadent era when landlords and eunuchs ran China. That taboo was broken in 1984 when the Chinese Athletics ...